[Patch] Allow to disable root privileges with CYGWIN=noroot

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 5 14:03:00 GMT 2009


Hi Christian,

On Oct 14 14:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 14 13:24, Christian Franke wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Cool.  Another interesting option could be to remove the domain admins
> > > group as well, if the user is a domain user and, of course, removing
> > > any single user right, similar to the "capsh" tool under SELinux.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, makes sense.
> > 
> > 
> > > I'm just not sure if that tool should be part of the Cygwin package or
> > > a package of its own right.  I'm leaning towards the latter choice.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > ... or add it to the cygutils package ?
> 
> Sure, if Chuck likes the idea.

did you talk to Chuck in the meantime?  Or are you contemplating the
idea to put this in a separate package?


Thanks,
Corinna

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